Arranging language features for more robust pattern-based crosscuts
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
A Study of The Fragile Base Class Problem
ECCOP '98 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
A disciplined approach to aspect composition
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation
State-based incremental testing of aspect-oriented programs
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
A framework and tool supports for generating test inputs of AspectJ programs
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Feature oriented refactoring of legacy applications
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Aspectual mixin layers: aspects and features in concert
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
State-based testing of integration aspects
Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Testing aspect-oriented programs
Testing AspectJ programs using fault-based testing
Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Testing aspect-oriented programs
Expressive scoping of dynamically-deployed aspects
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Feature featherweight java: a calculus for feature-oriented programming and stepwise refinement
GPCE '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Program refactoring using functional aspects
GPCE '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Detection and Resolution of Weaving Interactions
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development V
AspectScript: expressive aspects for the web
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development
Mostly modular compilation of crosscutting concerns by contextual predicate dispatch
Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Context-aware services engineering: Models, transformations, and verification
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
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Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) promises to benefit software engineering by providing a layer of abstraction that can modularize system-level concerns. AOP is still a very young area of research and has yet to receive mainstream acceptance in industry. As a result, the industry as a whole lacks experience and knowledge concerning long term maintenance issues with AOP in deployed commercial applications. Fault models that result from software maintenance in aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) are not nearly as well understood as they are for object-oriented software development (OOSD). This paper will explore some of the long-term maintenance issues that can occur with AspectJ, which is an implementation of AOP for the Java programming language. More specifically, the ability of AspectJ (as of version 1.2) to weave into existing bytecode that already contains woven aspects can create unexpected and potentially unsolvable problems. This will hopefully lead to further discussion in the research community that will result in a better understanding of the long-term maintenance issues inherent in AOSD.